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OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review: It Gives Your MacBook Pro 13 Extra Ports
February 01, 2018 07:11 - 5 minutesCome with me, back to a simpler time. It's 2015, and Apple's MacBook Pros are on the top of the world. The 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro was one of the best notebooks anyone could ask for. It had everything–USB-A ports, Thunderbolt 2, an SD card slot. Everything was great, until—smash cut to late 2016, when Apple did a major redesign of the entire Pro lineup. Suddenly, USB-C and Thunderbolt were the only ports for charging and input, throwing users into an awkward spot. Learn more about your ad ...
Timex Ironman GPS Review: What Athletes Need, And Nothing More
January 31, 2018 16:30 - 7 minutesFull disclosure: Unbeknownst to my editors, I wore a Timex Ironman watch for over a decade. My Timex did everything I needed a watch to do. I wore it traveling, snowboarding, swimming, running, snorkeling and surfing. I could set an alarm, check my pace, and show up when I said I would. It also lit up, so when unexpected noises woke me while camping, I could huddle in my sleeping bag, check the time, and note that the bears had decided to eat us at precisely 1:34 am. Learn more about your ad ...
Ski Gear for Bad Weather: Columbia, Line, POC, Dakine
January 31, 2018 09:43 - 3 minutesSome days are crushingly cold and sloppy. Bring the right equipment and you won’t suffer. When the snow is ripping sideways, you’ll need a sturdy shield to block the freeze. Constructed from a composite material with a waterproof exterior and a wicking inner fabric, Columbia’s jacket can keep you going long after your friends have bailed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Cars We'll Be Driving (and Not Driving) in 2018
January 30, 2018 16:30 - 3 minutesJanuary has so far proven to be one of the busiest months for the transportation industry. CES in early January was flooded with car news, including the debut of a new $45,000 electric SUV by a Chinese Tesla competitor called Byton. Then, just days after CES wrapped, we had the Detroit auto show, where America’s largest car-makers trot out their designs for the next year. WIRED transportation editor Alex Davies pays close attention to all of these announcements and developments. Learn more ab...
2018 Ski Gear for Sunny Days: Trew, Faction, Smith, Tecnica
January 30, 2018 07:11 - 3 minutesThere’s nothing like skiing under dazzling blue skies. Don’t ruin it by dressing for a blizzard. 1. Trew Men’s Wander Jacket A simple wind-blocking shell is all you need in epic weather. The trim cut of this one means it doesn’t feel like you are wearing a tent, and the lightweight construction makes it easy to pack or stuff in a backpack. If wind and clouds suddenly appear, no prob: You’re still protected. $419 2. Faction Dictator 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Gboard Is the Best Keyboard For Most Smartphones
January 29, 2018 16:30 - 6 minutesWhether on Android or iOS, you likely already use Google Maps for navigation. You use Gmail for email. You use YouTube to watch videos. And you’re right to do so. You’d be even more right to ditch whatever junk keyboard your smartphone shipped with for Gboard, another Google staple that works like a dream. Lots of Android devices—including the Pixel line of premium phones—already use Gboard by default. It's been widely available to download for a year and a half. Learn more about your ad choi...
How to Optimize Your Home for Robot Servants
January 29, 2018 07:11 - 6 minutesRobots can walk, talk, run a hotel … and are entirely stumped by a doorknob. Or a mailbox. Or a dirty bathtub—zzzzt, dead. Sure, the SpotMini, a doglike domestic helper from Boston Dynamics, can climb stairs, but it struggles to reliably hand over a can of soda. That’s why some roboticists think the field needs to flip its perspective. “There are two approaches to building robots,” says Maya Cakmak, a researcher at the University of Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
Made In Cookware Pan Set Review: Inexpensive, But Flawed
January 26, 2018 16:30 - 11 minutesMy sister Gina is a fantastic cook who does not suffer crappy cookware gladly. Her pans are battle-tested All Clads that have been roughed up over the years, but they take the abuse she dishes out with a shrug. Once, though, I noticed damage to a T-Fal pan of hers that wasn't up to the task; the bottom of the pan had a bit of a dome shape to it, meaning hot oil within the pan pooled around the outer rim but did not cover the higher center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...
Best Super Bowl Home and TV Deals for 2018: LG, Vizio, Sonos, Roku, Crock Pots
January 26, 2018 07:11 - 10 minutesThe Super Bowl is upon us, and this year we get to watch The New England Patriots face off against the Philadelphia Eagles. If that sounds familiar, it’s because they both faced off in the 2005 Super Bowl. The Patriots won then, but that doesn’t mean they’ll win again. With fans so dedicated that they’ll climb up Crisco’d light poles to celebrate, Philly may just have the spirit to overcome. The big game kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, February 4 on NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Freemie Liberty Review: The Breast Pump, Reimagined
January 25, 2018 16:30 - 9 minutesThe worst part of breast pumping? The logistics. Ask any working, breastfeeding mom and she'll describe the hassle of finding a private room, disrobing, and hooking up to a machine to pump every three to four hours. And then, after she's sat there for 20 minutes, she still needs to store the milk, wash everything, and put it all away. As an ER doctor and mom of preemie twins, Stella Dao had to pump four to six times a day. She had a big incentive to improve the existing technology. Learn more...
Review: HTC U11 Life (Unlocked, T-Mobile)
January 25, 2018 07:11 - 6 minutesLet’s face it. Phones cost too much money. Yes, the $1,000 iPhone X is awesome, but for those who don’t need to keep a status symbol in their pocket, $350 feels much more reasonable, and that’s what the HTC U11 Life offers. You can buy two or three of these for the price of a top-tier Android phone, like the Pixel 2, and that’s the point. It’s an unabashed value version of HTC’s fancier U11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Remembering Ursula Le Guin, Imaginer of Difficult Worlds
January 24, 2018 16:30 - 4 minutesUrsula Le Guin imagined the future for a living, but her most prescient statement may have come in a speech. "I think hard times are coming," the writer said at the National Book Awards in November 2014, "when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope." Three years and change. Learn more about your ad choic...
The Physics of Why Bigger Drones Can Fly Longer
January 24, 2018 07:11 - 7 minutesYou can get a drone in a wide range of sizes. Some of them fit in your palm (like the Syma X20) while others are quite large. But have you noticed anything about the flying time? Many of the super small drones have flight times that are less than five minutes. The larger drones (like the DJI Phantom 4) have a maximum flight time of closer to a half hour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Riding a Wild Wind, a Norwegian 787 Breaks a Speed Record
January 23, 2018 16:30 - 7 minutesWhen Randal Miles woke up from a nap during his flight from Paris to Los Angeles last week, he opened the interactive map on his seat-back screen to see how much longer he'd be in the air. But the number that caught his eye was the jet's speed. The Norwegian jet was flying at 770 mph—about 200 mph faster than its standard cruising velocity. “I thought, ‘Damn, this thing is hauling ass,’” Miles says. “I thought I was either sleepy or it was reading wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
How to Pre-Order Both of Nintendo's Labo Kits
January 23, 2018 07:11 - 4 minutesNintendo has sold a lot of Switches in the last year thanks to the console's unique ability to play games on a TV and on the go, but also thanks to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. Though they came from 30+ year-old franchises, both games helped millions fall in love with them all over again. In 2018, Nintendo is setting its sights in a direction it hasn't aimed at before: the do-it yourself crowd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...
Does Sony's LF-S50G Speaker Actually Respond To Gestures? Not Really
January 22, 2018 16:30 - 7 minutesGrowing up, my black and faux woodgrain GE Digital Alarm Clock Radio was essential. I trusted it to tell me the time and make sure I wake up each and every morning—regardless of how many times I pressed its 9 minute snooze. Time has not been kind to that, now-vintage alarm clock. Somehow, it still does what it was designed to do, but in the last decade, my phone has taken all of its responsibilities. It now sits under my nightstand, wrapped in its own power cord like a straitjacket. Learn mor...
The Away Carry-On Suitcase Would Be Great Even If It Weren't Smart
January 22, 2018 07:11 - 6 minutesIn the crowded Las Vegas airport on my way home from CES 2018, I wedged myself into an empty spot of wall next to an outlet. The outlet didn’t work. For a half-hour, I watched people wander up hopefully, charging block in hand, try it, and shuffle away, defeated. “It doesn’t work,” I said. “Sorry, it doesn’t work,” I’d say again. Over and over and over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk About the *Multiplicity*
January 19, 2018 16:30 - 6 minutesFor a species that’s conquered Earth and traveled through space and invented the Slapchop, we humans sure are insecure when it comes to technology. Our greatest fear: the singularity, when the abilities of AI and robots surpass those of humans, growing so advanced that civilization is forced to reboot as humanity spirals into existential dread. Or worse, the machines turn us into batteries, à la The Matrix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tasty One Top Review:
January 19, 2018 09:26 - 14 minutesMy test kitchen tends to be a pretty happy place to work. Case in point? I got to make fried chicken the other day. For it, I put the bird parts in a salty buttermilk bath for the afternoon, then cooked them using the brand new One Top from Tasty. I'd tell you more about that first batch of chicken, but in the frenzy, my notes were obliterated by hot sauce and the grease on my fingers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nintendo Labo: Price, Details, Release Date
January 18, 2018 16:31 - 4 minutesSuffice to say the Nintendo Switch is a hit beyond what anyone could have expected. The versatile, modular console sold more than 10 million units in its first 10 months, and became the fastest-selling console in US history. That's all the more impressive given Switches were nearly impossible to find in the console's early months, as Nintendo (like everyone else) seriously underestimated its appeal. For Nintendo, then, 2018 becomes a year of doubling down. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Ford Is Finally Getting Serious About Making Electric Cars
January 18, 2018 07:11 - 6 minutesA Mustang and an Explorer wheel into a Detroit factory. This is not, tragically, the beginning of a joke. Rather, it’s a new (and weirdly ‘80s themed?) Ford promo video. Lightning flashes, synthesizers synthesize, and we behold the carmaker's next great machine, to debut in 2020: an all-electric SUV, good for 300 miles of driving between charges, called the Mach 1. Well, we behold a glowing sign that reads "Mach 1"—Ford has yet to debut the car, even as a concept or prototype. Learn more abou...
Nissan's Brain Wave Project Could Help You Drive by Reading Your Mind
January 17, 2018 16:31 - 8 minutesAs I sit down in Nissan’s simulator, I prepare myself for the fact that a cohort of researchers could scrutinize my skills as a wheelman with more rigor than the most aggravating backseat driver. And, I accept that this process involves wearing what looks like a too-small, sideways bicycle helmet, which holds 11 electrodes poking through my hair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Now On Nintendo Switch, 'Furi' Embraces The Power of a Good Boss Fight
January 17, 2018 07:11 - 5 minutesFirst released last year for a bevy of other platforms, Furi is all boss fights. With pounding synth-heavy music and a visual style riffing off of anime and cyberpunk, it's an unending stream of big-bad showdowns, the sort of challenging, mano a mano fights usually served up as level or quest climaxes in other games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kylo's Shirtless Look Is a Problem for Star Wars Cosplayers
January 16, 2018 16:55 - 7 minutesOne might think that rumors out of the galaxy far, far away would subside once Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit theaters. One would be wrong. Even as director Rian Johnson's film continues to get headlines for its costume choices, box office hauls, and lost scenes, gossip about the future of the franchise was spreading throughout the internet. Just what's going on with the next film coming out of the Star Wars universe? Read on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump's 'Shithole Countries' Comment Tops This Week's Internet News
January 16, 2018 16:30 - 18 minutesLast week Facebook decided that maybe it should make some changes to the information people see on the platform; also, a lot of people got very interested in the pay discrepancies between Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams. But, beyond that, it was also a week where everyone learned that a school kid could play the Cantina Band song from Star Wars with a pencil. Yes, it was yet another strange, wonderful week on the internet. But what else happened? Here we go. Learn more about your ad choic...
6 GoPro Tips For Skiing and Snowboarding Shots
January 16, 2018 07:11 - 4 minutesGet great results from your action cam as you capture your heroics ... and your epic bails. When to Slo-Mo The GoPro Hero6 can shoot 1080p video at 240 frames per second—meaning that when you slow it down 10X, it looks amazing. But hitting the brakes doesn’t work for everything. Slo-mo is garbage for point-of-view angles. Save it for when you’re shooting video of your friends—place the camera at ground level to film a trick—or when you’re (sigh) using a selfie stick. Learn more about your ad ...
CES 2018: Screen Tech from LG, Samsung Shows Us TV’s Future
January 15, 2018 07:11 - 9 minutesCES is still a TV conference. Even as the tech industry experiments with augmented reality, self-driving cars, and the outer limits of what you can embed in a refrigerator, everything in Vegas still revolves around the big screen. The 2018 crop mostly marches along the same path manufacturers have been following for decades: Everything's a little bigger and sharper, and there are new inscrutable acronyms everywhere you look. All in the hopes this is the year you finally spring for a new set. ...
Please Do Not Assault the Towering Robot That Roams Walmart
January 12, 2018 16:30 - 6 minutesIf you think shopping is tedious, try juggling 200,000 products in a Walmart. Not literally, of course, but somehow keeping the shelves stocked over an area of tens of thousands of square feet. For that you need a worker with a barcode scanner and an enviable amount of patience. Or you could unleash a hard-working robot from a company called Bossa Nova. At over six feet tall, it roams the aisles, blasting shelves with light and snapping photos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
Moog Music Drummer From Another Mother (DFAM): Price, Specs, Release Date
January 12, 2018 07:11 - 5 minutesThe folks at Moog Music aren't content just making ridiculously fun synthesizers, iPad apps, and effects boxes for creative musicians. The company now is dipping into percussion—it's newest product, announced today, is a drum machine called the Drummer From Another Mother. Well, hang on. It's not exactly a drum machine. It's a monophonic, semi-modular, analog percussion synthesizer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
CES 2018: New Chips From Qualcomm Point to the Future of Computing
January 11, 2018 16:30 - 13 minutesNakul Duggal, Qualcomm's vice president of product management, sticks his head into a Cadillac SUV and points up at a gaping rectangular hole in the ceiling. A hole in this ceiling is hardly remarkable: the whole car looks like a bomb went off inside. Seats face the wrong direction, and wires dangle from places you didn't even know there were wires. A few feet away, two more cars—a Ford and a Maserati—sit in roughly the same condition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Trump's Nuclear Button Tweet Tops This Week's Internet News
January 11, 2018 07:11 - 27 minutesHappy New Year, dear readers. It’s comforting—no, wait, what’s opposite of comforting?—to see that, despite still being able to laugh at Oregonians and gas problems and accidental movie reference mix-ups in news reports, 2018 actually got off to a terrifyingly fast start. Even though we took a week off for the holidays, everything you’re about to read has happened in the past seven days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Softwear: How Outlier, the Underground Fashion Label for Nerds, Got Cool
January 10, 2018 16:31 - 25 minutesIt’s 12:21 pm on a Tuesday, and the new coat from Outlier is going live. For the obsessed fans of this technically minded menswear house, Tuesday drops are always a big deal. This one is bigger than most. The Shelter From the Storm is Outlier’s first breathable waterproof shell. That’s the kind of thing that, if you care about it, you care about it a lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google's VR180 Cameras Are the Future of Point-and-Shoot
January 10, 2018 07:11 - 8 minutesJust about everyone agrees virtual and augmented reality are going to be important. The tech already sort of works, and will get better quickly from here. Gadgets offering the ability to truly feel as if you've been transported to another place, or to superimpose the digital world on the real one, will be transformative. Somehow. Eventually. For some reason. No one knows exactly what AR and VR will be good for, or when. They just know it's coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...
'Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy': The Guy Who Made 'QWOP' Is Back To Infuriate You All Over Again
January 09, 2018 16:31 - 5 minutesFrom its title to its premise, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy reads as a dark joke. Whether that a joke includes you or not, though, is impossible to say. It's true that the PC game is uproariously, darkly funny. It has a simple aim: climb this mountain. The only problem is that your character is a man stuck inside a pot, his only climbing implement a hammer he can swing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
CES 2018 Trends: What to Expect From the Huge Consumer Tech Show
January 09, 2018 07:11 - 6 minutesAt the world's biggest gadget show, everything is always amazing. Every year, more than a hundred thousand CES attendees pour into Las Vegas to convince each other and the world that everything before was crap and everything to come will change that. They go to see the biggest and thinnest new TVs, the fastest and lightest new laptops, the headphones and the phone cases and the drones and the refrigerators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Freak Out Your Dogs with Nest's New Security Cameras
January 08, 2018 16:30 - 9 minutesShortly after we installed the Nest home security cameras, my spouse arrived home from work scowling. He opened the Nest app and started scrolling through the day’s footage. “What’s going on?” I asked, certain that a package had been stolen or some other grave injustice had been done. “Did those [unprintables] forget to pick up the garbage?” he asked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aurora Innovation Hooks Up With Volkswagen and Hyundai, Tesla Production Delays, Mapzen Shutdown, and More Car News
January 08, 2018 07:11 - 7 minutesEvery human who gets down with the Gregorian calendar can celebrate New Year’s Day, that rare 24-hour stretch when soldiering through a hangover is expected, and precious little work gets done. Too bad that this year, they only got one day before it was back to work. Good thing WIRED's transportation team was here to cover it all. Jack provided context for Tesla’s (disappointing, but unsurprising) new production numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
McLaren's New 570S Spider Supercar Adds Practicality to Luxury
January 05, 2018 16:30 - 6 minutesMcLaren built its reputation on high-tech, high-spec, top priced racing cars. Borrowing engineering acumen from its (historically great, currently weak) Formula One team, the British company has produced some truly wondrous road cars, starting with the three-seater F1 in the nineties—the world's fastest production car for a decade—up to the all-new, million-dollar Senna, with a 789-horsepower engine in a vehicle that weighs just 2,461 pounds. But McLaren has larger aspirations. Learn more abo...
An American City’s Guide for Surviving the New World of Transportation
January 05, 2018 07:11 - 9 minutesLast year was the first one in a while that made Americans stop, pause, and ask themselves if they could survive the end of the world. Whether you're a Silicon Valley billionaire or a regular schmo making minimum wage, it's worth considering a bug out bag in 2018—some insurance against the apocalypse. If you're an entire American city, however, your prepper sack needs more than batteries and a good knife. Things are shifting quickly in the world of urban mobility. Learn more about your ad cho...
Tesla Delays Its Model 3 Production Goals—Again
January 04, 2018 16:30 - 9 minutesUPDATE: On Wednesday, January 3, Tesla revealed it has pushed back its production targets for the Model 3 sedan, yet again. In its latest Vehicle Production and Deliveries report, Tesla says it is focussing on quality and efficiency, rather than just pushing for the max volume in the shortest time, and so is aiming for a production speed of 2,500 Model 3s per week by March, and double that by the end of June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GoRuck’s GR1 Backpack Answers the Call of Duty—for a Steep Price
January 04, 2018 07:11 - 8 minutesIn bag-loving circles, GoRuck’s origin story has become the stuff of legend. In 2008, founder Jason McCarthy left the Special Forces, had his heart broken, and out of the rubble of his life built a bag based on his experiences overseas that could tackle both urban commutes and battles against insurgents. Their flagship bag is the GR1, which I have been using as my everyday bag for the past two weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Inside DC’s Controversial 'Watchmen' and Justice League Crossover
January 03, 2018 16:30 - 5 minutesThree decades after Watchmen's release, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' dark, cerebral graphic novel remains one of most critically celebrated works of the superhero genre. On the commercial side, the comics world of the Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) contains some of the most well-known superhero stories of all time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2017's Best Moments in Music, From Cardi B to Lady Gaga
January 03, 2018 07:11 - 12 minutesIf Baby Driver taught folks anything this year, it's that finding just the right song at just the right moment is like kismet. You can't predict it, but when it happens you have to let it wash over you. Typically these jolts of joy occur to individuals listening alone, but every so often they happen to the public at large. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How Snapchat's Dancing Hot Dog Taught the Internet to Love AR
January 02, 2018 16:30 - 10 minutesThe first sighting of the dancing hot dog in the wild happened in June. By the Fourth of July, it had made its way around the world, breakdancing at bars and barbecues, at weddings and bar mitzvahs. It turned otherwise banal videos of the grocery store into cinematic masterpieces starring the hot dog, surmounting the refrigerated Oscar Mayers like a pile of carnage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Most-read WIRED Culture Stories of 2017
January 02, 2018 07:11 - 7 minutesEarlier this year, WIRED published a story that asked a question that seemed to encapsulate internet culture in 2017: What does 'covfefe' mean? The nonsense term was tweeted out by President Donald Trump, and the internet went into a fit trying to define it. As WIRED culture writer Angela Watercutter wrote, "Nearly every great meme starts with an obscure word, hashtag, or image that is then granted humor based on what the internet does with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
Review: iRobot Roomba 980
January 01, 2018 16:30 - 9 minutesThe most annoying part of vacuuming is the prep work. If you want to avoid making thousands of little tiny passes with an awkward push vacuum, you have to invest a significant amount of time picking up and putting away toys, cleaning up clothes, and moving furniture. Unfortunately, many robot vacuums do not offer significant improvements in this regard. Their instruction manuals warn you to tidy up beforehand if you don’t want the botvac to get stuck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...
Meal Kits Have a Packaging Problem
January 01, 2018 07:11 - 4 minutesRecently, someone asked me if I thought people were cooking at home less frequently than they used to. I bristled at the query, probably because I was worried that it might be true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Before Self-Driving Cars Become Real, They Face These Challenges
December 29, 2017 18:01 - 12 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 Tips and Tricks For Using Your Amazon Kids Tablet
December 29, 2017 13:53 - 5 minutesHanding your child a teddy bear with an embedded camera is a bad idea. But a kid-friendly tablet, with carefully curated content under direct parental supervision, is another thing altogether. Our recommended tablet for kids is the Amazon Fire HD 8 for Kids, which we reviewed earlier this year. Its parental controls and rugged design make it ideal for your tot, but there are five things you should look for when you set up your Amazon Fire for Kids device for the first time. Learn more about y...
The Most-Read WIRED Transportation Stories of 2017
December 28, 2017 16:30 - 7 minutesWhen I worked at Texas Monthly magazine, there was no surer way to capture a reader's attention than to put Willie Nelson on the cover or in the headline. It seems WIRED's version of the Red-Headed Stranger is one Elon Musk. This year, the Tesla CEO (probably better known as a hat salesman) finally launched the car company's Model 3 and unveiled an electric big rig to much fanfare—and to much interest of the WIRED audience. But it wasn't just Tesla dominating the headlines. Learn more about y...